68 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 5 



W. H. Wyman, North Abington, Mass. 



Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Association: 



It gives me great pleasure to be here this evening and to look at 

 your honest faces. I can say from my experience with the gentlemen 

 of your Association, and there are quite a number of them here to-night, 

 that I have come to respect very profoundly the honest efforts put 

 forth by the gentlemen of your Association. I have been extremely 

 interested in this work of securing national legislation along the lines 

 suggested by the Bill, as brought to your attention to-night. 



I have l)elieved all the way along that when we got together and 

 looked each other in the face, and got each other's ideas, we should 

 not be far apart. Did you ever realize or stop to think that the great 

 trouble with the races is very largely due to the fact that they jdo not 

 understand each other? If we had one common language with the 

 races, the wars would be practically no more. When we get together 

 and understand each other's position, then we can arrive at conclu- 

 sions, such as we have arrived at here this afternoon and this evening. 



I feel very sanguine that the nurserymen of America will stand by 

 this Bill and do everything in their power to support it and to secure 

 its passage at the coming session. I cannot add any word to what 

 has already been said. 



I wish to add this word of appreciation of the work that is being 

 done by the Department of Agriculture along many lines, — not only 

 along the lines we are having to contend with in Massachusetts, but 

 many others, and we want to sympathize with you in all your efforts 

 and to thank you for what you are doing not only for the nurserymen, 

 but behind the nurserymen, the great public, which we are always 

 endeavoring to serve. First and foremost, we must think of the 

 people at large, the general public, and in the law that is to be recom- 

 mended to Congress by your body, I believe we are serving 

 the interests of all. 



It was moved and carried that a vote of thanks be extended the 

 visiting nurserymen. 



The Committee on Affiliation was continued and requested to 

 submit a report at the next meeting. The members of this Com- 

 mittee are T. B. Symons, E. D. Sanderson and S. A. Forbes. 



Upon motion by Mr. Headlee and seconded by Professor Surface, 

 and carried, the President was authorized to appoint a Committee to 

 consult with chiefs of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant 

 Industry', and wait upon the Postmaster General, with a view of 

 securing his co-operation in preventing miscellaneous plants and trees 



